Houston Water Works Co. v. Harris

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

On the 20th day of November, 1890, appellee brought suit against appellant for the recovery of damages upon an alleged breach of contract. The petition averred, that plaintiff •contracted with J. C. League, on the 8th of April, 1890, to sink for him, in the city of Houston, an artesian well, and that on the 10th of said month appellant undertook and agreed to furnish plaintiff with a continuous flow of water to enable him to sink said well for said League; that appellant failed to supply a continuous flow of water, as it had agreed and promised to do, and that by…